Yes, this request was made in 2008:
"At a time when serious questions are being raised about transition readiness, it would be counterproductive for the FCC to consider unrelated items, especially complex and controversial items that the new Congress and new Administration will have an interest in reviewing."
http://commerce.senate.gov/pub...
If you were in the UK and your last mile only supported that speed, you might as well go with a cheap ISP. http://www.uswitch.com/broadband
But Joe Blow internet user probably lives in an area covered by FTTC (i.e. BT Infinity) and could get 40 Mbps minimum.
I've been to dozens of major cities around the world. The USA doesn't rank well for crime, with so many weapons on the street. And the TSA guys in Minneapolis are far more extreme than anyone at Manchester.
But I haven't been to Baltimore. Perhaps you travel at night for safety?
This entire article can be thrown out the window. It ignores the Apple and Google political spending, which would be more than enough to tip the total toward the Democrats. It would be great if they could cite their sources properly - I've never felt like anything on Ars was reliable, much less balanced.
No kidding. All you have to do these days is post absolute B.S. that *sounds* intelligent to start your own cache of karma. I've tried it myself; works pretty well. Usually pops up most during the political "left-handed jerk-off sessions" or the OS platform wars, although the Mac vs PC hollering seems to have moved to digg (wish it would move to/dev/null, myself). I just wish there were more people willing to post counter arguments, rather than the usual "yes I agree" along with a terrible analogy.
It's my opinion that anyone in that list making more than $250,000 is making too much, regardless of how many public appearances they make or how big their name is. How do you feel about your state taxes going to pay for a coach's salary, rather than fixing roads, promoting economic/medical/science development, or preserving natural resources?
You could be a doctor saving lives and making $100,000/yr, then make a deal to go teach in a classroom 10 hours a week and triple your pay. If I were into socialism, these people would be in jail for fraud and theft of taxpayer money.
But as far as graduate school is concerned, it can be easier to pay for than undergrad for several reasons, such as
a) assistantships and research grants
b) existing cashflow or cash accumulation prior to returning to school
c) being a "non-standard" student (different race/bloodline or foreign visitor). Even so, from what I've seen it is a way to get a small boost in a squandered career, at best. The best use for graduate school is FUN learning, where you don't care what it costs because you aren't doing it to make more money and knowledge becomes the #1 priority, rather than grades and references.
The No Child Left Behind Act is basically an educational welfare program, with a label twisted from a military saying slapped on. Welfare programs encourage people to repeat the behavior the programs are covering up for. The reason I don't like Bush is that he pushes liberal programs for Name popularity and ends up backing down on the good conservative programs because of the work+politics in actually getting them done. Spending more and more and more money on inner city schools isn't going to help; the school administrators are mostly corrupt and the money won't help at the source of the problems - cleaning up the neighborhoods.
Politicians always play on the media's current focus - think steriods and baseball - and every time violence happens at a school it becomes 100 times as tragic as the same event off school property. Even so, I don't think Bush would be in favor of this type of program. The surveillance programs are pretty clear in scope and regulated. School administrators might be paid by government, but that's about the extent of their involvement. School board members are just as bad - they quite often have no other connection with the school and have been away from schools for so long that they don't know what things are like these days.
And if we had been "connecting the dots" within the U.S. five years ago we might be in a very different situation.
I'm just saying that people shouldn't fake outrage now for purely political reasons. If everybody was really so upset about telephone call logging, we would have seen this debate flare up nearly a decade ago. Of course it was much less known back then, because the media mostly ignored it when it was run during a Democrat presidency.
Actual operations are not much different today than in the 90s - we simply have better tools, more capacity, and a confirmed reason to be doing it.
Also confirmed on Firefox nightly build (Minefield 20060510). My computer clearly isn't fast enough to render to infinity, but thanks for pointing it out!
>Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?
> Because the citizens paid for the telecom infrastructure.
For that reason we can allow telecoms to hold local monopolies. But it still hurts the consumer overall because nobody, especially a telecom, ever performs well using 'donated' money.
If you have a choice of which gas station to go to, you can affect the prices the oil companies charge to remain competitive within the local markets. (The essence of it is true anyway, of course there are exceptions - price collusion, etc)
I'd be interested to know why the Windows Media group is in the Mac lab. They did such a poor job on their Mac port that they are now directing people to 3rd party software.
In academia? Holy crap, you must not be in a public university. When I was attending a couple years ago, they offered RedHat EL for free to any student who asked. But like the vendors, we only officially supported that one distro.
It's not only difficult for application compatibility; the hardware is inefficient as well. We've got two racks of Dell Windows servers plus the associated power backups, network switches, etc that could be replaced by 4 U rackspace of Xserves and 3 U of tape and power backup. Think of the electricity, floorspace, air conditioning, and "OMG expensive" server savings. Intel Xserves + VMware (on OS X, even better) could save us $200,000 per year.
Way to go, comparing Bush to Hitler again. Let's take another try at it; this time to a modern-day socialist party and see what happens:
...If Bill Clinton is fired for misconduct and lying under oath then I agree. If not, then it probably means he has at least the implicit approbation of his constituents.
As for the whole Democrat party, they just have a climate of corruption. Far more Democrats were indicted under Clinton in his last four years than any other president in history, including GWB, and they tend to take more money from lobbyists. But they certainly don't give him direct orders for his unlawful actions. Do you really think Hitler did everything all by himself? There was a lot of lying and bribary going on in Germany in the 1930s.
And guess what... the Clinton administration did create the climate for such things to happen. So yet it's exactly related to the Democrats, Harry Reid, Sandy Burger and all the others. We can see how this climate caused STDs and political corruption to rise dramatically around the world. It's the new global warming!
Aside from the interface duplication, the article's comparison to IE is a bit...wrong.
How about this one: Apple's iTunes is like a Ford transmission, if said Ford transmission only worked in Ford vehicles.
The program's layout and design, the music store's functionality, layout, contracts and agreements, *everything* was done by Apple for iTunes users. If there is an open source group that wants to go and design something NEW, and do the work to get it right the first time (not that I expect they would from design history) then THAT would be something worth celebrating. The article should be more focused on the numerous technical problems it faces and the likelihood of quick legal defeats.
Lawyers argue whatever their clients want (typically). It's judges who are supposed to distinguish validity and intent of law amongst the arguments. So to say that she should prejudge a case and decided only to take it on morally perfect grounds - before working with the client - is impractical, at least.
I don't know what the specifics of the case were, but from the brief description it sounds like one money-grubbing person trying to take from another. You shouldn't demand a bug-free product nor a free upgrade path, even if you pay good money for it... if not for the technical infeasibility, then from Microsoft development history.
You might want to read that again. According to the Wiki, OO.o was in fact a participator in standardization of the specification, and both the latest 1.1rc and 2.0 beta OpenOffice releases support the format. I don't know if the stable releases support it, but if not it's only a matter of time, and government moves slow enough to wait. It helps that there are already other (stable) programs that support it, like Koffice.
I don't think Apple really owes the customers that much; in this case it's a matter of suing the biggest target in the hopes that a company's success will lend itself to a monetary payout in settlement of a pesky bunch of angry consumers.
Anyway, Apple got off extremely well in this. They've got news outlets spreading the Apple brand name, a bunch of satisfied customers with $50 credit, and more sales at Apple retail stores (more product on the market as well as better financial revenue reported). After taking into account profit margins and estimated legal & handling costs, they are probably putting out about $11 million. Given the age of the products involved and the attentiveness of consumers, perhaps 20% of the coupons will be redeemed for a total cost of $2.2 M. Match that against 6 million iPod sales in a quarter @ $250-300 apiece average...
It is interesting to think back to the "settlement" Microsoft had to pay to the State of California, only that was much bigger and was not a result of a faulty product (from a legal standpoint anyway; they may be faulty but Microsoft isn't held accountable for that sort of thing).
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Yes, this request was made in 2008: "At a time when serious questions are being raised about transition readiness, it would be counterproductive for the FCC to consider unrelated items, especially complex and controversial items that the new Congress and new Administration will have an interest in reviewing." http://commerce.senate.gov/pub...
Amazon is also interested in cloudy big data: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a...
Perhaps the assistance from The Weather Company is not completely unrelated to today's announcement.
If you were in the UK and your last mile only supported that speed, you might as well go with a cheap ISP.
http://www.uswitch.com/broadband
But Joe Blow internet user probably lives in an area covered by FTTC (i.e. BT Infinity) and could get 40 Mbps minimum.
I've been to dozens of major cities around the world. The USA doesn't rank well for crime, with so many weapons on the street. And the TSA guys in Minneapolis are far more extreme than anyone at Manchester.
But I haven't been to Baltimore. Perhaps you travel at night for safety?
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/11/06/witness-to-brutal-attack-speaks-with-wjz/
This entire article can be thrown out the window. It ignores the Apple and Google political spending, which would be more than enough to tip the total toward the Democrats. It would be great if they could cite their sources properly - I've never felt like anything on Ars was reliable, much less balanced.
NAI announces a new generation of security products, dubbed "McAfee Microchip Edition Software Suite (MESS) 1.0"
Here are another ~18500 videos that the YouTube staff has been purposefully ignoring.
y +guy&search=Search+ park&search=Searcha ma&search=Search+ show&search=Search
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=famil
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=south
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=futur
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daily
If they got rid of the copyrighted material, YouTube would be mostly junk videos and they'd be worthless to Google.
No kidding. All you have to do these days is post absolute B.S. that *sounds* intelligent to start your own cache of karma. I've tried it myself; works pretty well. Usually pops up most during the political "left-handed jerk-off sessions" or the OS platform wars, although the Mac vs PC hollering seems to have moved to digg (wish it would move to /dev/null, myself). I just wish there were more people willing to post counter arguments, rather than the usual "yes I agree" along with a terrible analogy.
Now we can run our computers at 10% capacity, too?
Oh, some people go into academia *exactly* for the money.
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http://data.dmregister.com/statesalaries/results.
(My professors made probably $120,000 on average)
It's my opinion that anyone in that list making more than $250,000 is making too much, regardless of how many public appearances they make or how big their name is. How do you feel about your state taxes going to pay for a coach's salary, rather than fixing roads, promoting economic/medical/science development, or preserving natural resources?
You could be a doctor saving lives and making $100,000/yr, then make a deal to go teach in a classroom 10 hours a week and triple your pay. If I were into socialism, these people would be in jail for fraud and theft of taxpayer money.
But as far as graduate school is concerned, it can be easier to pay for than undergrad for several reasons, such as
a) assistantships and research grants
b) existing cashflow or cash accumulation prior to returning to school
c) being a "non-standard" student (different race/bloodline or foreign visitor).
Even so, from what I've seen it is a way to get a small boost in a squandered career, at best. The best use for graduate school is FUN learning, where you don't care what it costs because you aren't doing it to make more money and knowledge becomes the #1 priority, rather than grades and references.
The No Child Left Behind Act is basically an educational welfare program, with a label twisted from a military saying slapped on. Welfare programs encourage people to repeat the behavior the programs are covering up for. The reason I don't like Bush is that he pushes liberal programs for Name popularity and ends up backing down on the good conservative programs because of the work+politics in actually getting them done. Spending more and more and more money on inner city schools isn't going to help; the school administrators are mostly corrupt and the money won't help at the source of the problems - cleaning up the neighborhoods.
Politicians always play on the media's current focus - think steriods and baseball - and every time violence happens at a school it becomes 100 times as tragic as the same event off school property. Even so, I don't think Bush would be in favor of this type of program. The surveillance programs are pretty clear in scope and regulated. School administrators might be paid by government, but that's about the extent of their involvement. School board members are just as bad - they quite often have no other connection with the school and have been away from schools for so long that they don't know what things are like these days.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
And if we had been "connecting the dots" within the U.S. five years ago we might be in a very different situation.
I'm just saying that people shouldn't fake outrage now for purely political reasons. If everybody was really so upset about telephone call logging, we would have seen this debate flare up nearly a decade ago. Of course it was much less known back then, because the media mostly ignored it when it was run during a Democrat presidency.
Actual operations are not much different today than in the 90s - we simply have better tools, more capacity, and a confirmed reason to be doing it.
Slashdot readers typically don't know much past what is being screamed about in the mainstream media.
Doesn't anyone here even remember ECHELON? Stop drinking the Kool Aid.
Thank you very much for all your hard work, and all naysaying columnists and pundits can go screw.
Please don't say that. We've got enough of them running around already without telling them to breed!
Also confirmed on Firefox nightly build (Minefield 20060510). My computer clearly isn't fast enough to render to infinity, but thanks for pointing it out!
>Why don't they go and tell the oil companies what they should charge for their damn gas?
> Because the citizens paid for the telecom infrastructure.
For that reason we can allow telecoms to hold local monopolies. But it still hurts the consumer overall because nobody, especially a telecom, ever performs well using 'donated' money.
If you have a choice of which gas station to go to, you can affect the prices the oil companies charge to remain competitive within the local markets. (The essence of it is true anyway, of course there are exceptions - price collusion, etc)
I'd be interested to know why the Windows Media group is in the Mac lab. They did such a poor job on their Mac port that they are now directing people to 3rd party software.
In academia? Holy crap, you must not be in a public university. When I was attending a couple years ago, they offered RedHat EL for free to any student who asked. But like the vendors, we only officially supported that one distro.
It's not only difficult for application compatibility; the hardware is inefficient as well. We've got two racks of Dell Windows servers plus the associated power backups, network switches, etc that could be replaced by 4 U rackspace of Xserves and 3 U of tape and power backup. Think of the electricity, floorspace, air conditioning, and "OMG expensive" server savings. Intel Xserves + VMware (on OS X, even better) could save us $200,000 per year.
Way to go, comparing Bush to Hitler again. Let's take another try at it; this time to a modern-day socialist party and see what happens:
...If Bill Clinton is fired for misconduct and lying under oath then I agree. If not, then it probably means he has at least the implicit approbation of his constituents.
As for the whole Democrat party, they just have a climate of corruption. Far more Democrats were indicted under Clinton in his last four years than any other president in history, including GWB, and they tend to take more money from lobbyists. But they certainly don't give him direct orders for his unlawful actions. Do you really think Hitler did everything all by himself? There was a lot of lying and bribary going on in Germany in the 1930s.
And guess what... the Clinton administration did create the climate for such things to happen. So yet it's exactly related to the Democrats, Harry Reid, Sandy Burger and all the others. We can see how this climate caused STDs and political corruption to rise dramatically around the world. It's the new global warming!
Aside from the interface duplication, the article's comparison to IE is a bit...wrong.
How about this one: Apple's iTunes is like a Ford transmission, if said Ford transmission only worked in Ford vehicles.
The program's layout and design, the music store's functionality, layout, contracts and agreements, *everything* was done by Apple for iTunes users. If there is an open source group that wants to go and design something NEW, and do the work to get it right the first time (not that I expect they would from design history) then THAT would be something worth celebrating. The article should be more focused on the numerous technical problems it faces and the likelihood of quick legal defeats.
Lawyers argue whatever their clients want (typically). It's judges who are supposed to distinguish validity and intent of law amongst the arguments. So to say that she should prejudge a case and decided only to take it on morally perfect grounds - before working with the client - is impractical, at least.
I don't know what the specifics of the case were, but from the brief description it sounds like one money-grubbing person trying to take from another. You shouldn't demand a bug-free product nor a free upgrade path, even if you pay good money for it... if not for the technical infeasibility, then from Microsoft development history.
You might want to read that again. According to the Wiki, OO.o was in fact a participator in standardization of the specification, and both the latest 1.1rc and 2.0 beta OpenOffice releases support the format. I don't know if the stable releases support it, but if not it's only a matter of time, and government moves slow enough to wait. It helps that there are already other (stable) programs that support it, like Koffice.
I don't think Apple really owes the customers that much; in this case it's a matter of suing the biggest target in the hopes that a company's success will lend itself to a monetary payout in settlement of a pesky bunch of angry consumers.
Anyway, Apple got off extremely well in this. They've got news outlets spreading the Apple brand name, a bunch of satisfied customers with $50 credit, and more sales at Apple retail stores (more product on the market as well as better financial revenue reported). After taking into account profit margins and estimated legal & handling costs, they are probably putting out about $11 million. Given the age of the products involved and the attentiveness of consumers, perhaps 20% of the coupons will be redeemed for a total cost of $2.2 M. Match that against 6 million iPod sales in a quarter @ $250-300 apiece average...
It is interesting to think back to the "settlement" Microsoft had to pay to the State of California, only that was much bigger and was not a result of a faulty product (from a legal standpoint anyway; they may be faulty but Microsoft isn't held accountable for that sort of thing).